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BOTTLE SEAL.

No. 587,199. Patented July 27, 1897.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.'

FRANK S. GRANT, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORITO JOSEPH GALLOND,OF- SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-S EAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,199, dated July 27,1897.

'I y Appncaion ned January 12,1897. serai No. 618,998. (No man.)

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Be it known that I, FRANK S. GRANT, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of NVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBottle-Seals; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to xo which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying i drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon,which form a part of this specification.'

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation r 5 of a sectional view ofneck portion of bottle having the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is asimilar View showing modified form of invention. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of upper part of bottle with seal and cork removed,

2o but with band B and its fingers in place. Fig. 4: is a perspectiveview of seal, one-half of same being cut away. Fig. 5 is a perspectiveview of band and fingers.

This invention is designed to provide a bot- 2 5 tie-seal of improvedcharacter whereby after an original package has once been opened itcannot be refilled with goods of a different or inferior quality orbrand and sold under the original name, label, or trademark.

3o With this object in view the invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts, all as herein-after described,and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

3 5 the letter A designates abottle of any suitable or ordinarycharacter, the only requisite being that the neck portion shall have anexternal shoulder or projection a short distance below the orifice.

4o B designates a band or collar which is secured around said neckportion and is retained thereon by means of said shoulder or projection.Said band or collar is provided with a number of upwardly-projectingfingers B' of yieldingl or spring character and which terminate at theirupper ends in hooks or projections b.

C designates the seal, which is in the form of a hollow cap or shell,open at its lower end,

5o closed at its upper end, and adapted to fit Over the orifice and neckportion of the bottle. It is provided with an interior shoulder orflange c, or it may be with any other suitable means, of such characterthat when it is slipped down over the neck of the bottle the ngers Bwill be pressed inwardly and will not offer material resistance thereto,but which upon any attempt to withdraw the cap will at once engage withsaid iingers or their hooks or projections, and thereby effectually 6oprevent the said cap from being removed until its integrality has beendestroyed. The cap A,may be made of glass or of other frangiblematerial, and the name, trade-mark, or v other distinctive sign of theparticular factor 6 5 putting out .the goods is to be blown into,stamped upon, or otherwise affixed to the same. The cap may also be ofmetal, in which case it must be cut with a suitable tool before it canbe removed and access to the bottle- 7o cork be gained. In order,therefore, for the bottle to be againfilled and placed on the marketwith the distinctive marks of the original package, it is necessary tocounterfeit the seal, which if practiced to any considerable extentwould be easy to detect and would render the offender liable. 5

I usually form the collar or band B With a second series of fingers B2,as shown in Fig. 2,which project downwardly around the neck 8o of thebottle and are for the purpose of frictionally engaging the seal toprevent looseness or play of the same. These fingers may, however, beomittedl dov not limit myself to the particular A means herein shown anddescribed for holding the seal in place while intact, as various devicesmight be used for this purpose without departing fromthe spirit andscope of my invention, nor do I wish to limit myself to 9o the use ofany particular kind of material in the manufacture of the seal or to theform thereof which I have illustrated.

Having thus described my inventi0n,what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is i 1. The combination with a bottle, of aband or collar secured around the neck portion thereof and formed with aseries of springfingers which extend upwardly around the 10o mouthportion of the neck, each of said ngers having at its free end anoutwardly and downwardly bent hook, and a frangible `cap y or sealadapted to it over said neck portion and to pass the said iingers andtheir hooks in a downward or seating direction, but having an internalannular shoulder or projection at its upper portion which is designed toengage the ends of the hooks upon reverse movement, substantially asspeeied.

2. The combination with a bottle, of a band or collar scoured around theneck portion thereof and formed with a series of springfingers whichextend up around the mouth portion of the neck, each of said fingershaving at its free end an outwardly and downwardly bent hook, saidcollar also having a series of similar downwardly-extending fingerswhose free end portions are bent upwardly and inwardly, and afrangiblecap or seal adapted to fit over said neck portion and to passsaid fingers and hooks in a downward or seating direction, and having aninternal annular shoulder or projection which 1s dcsigned to engage withthe hooks of the up-

